Do you know someone like this? It’s easy to get caught up in a trend, isn’t it? The question is…how do you get out of it? About Donna Hoffman, The Interior Design Advocate™ Donna is a former top QVC Show Host and now one of the country’s foremost consumer advocates in interior design in addition…
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Category: Interior Design Trends
There was a great article in the Wall Street Journal recently about the high end London real estate market. Whatever image comes to your mind when I say “high end” – go higher. No, higher. According to the WSJ, there is sales figure history being made in London when it comes to higher-than-high end real…
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What do you get when you combine a team of tour-de-force designers with a stunning piece of architecture and healthy budgets (and sure…industry pull and relationships to get “the good stuff” shipped in an installed in about 3 hours – OK…7 weeks…). You get a sensational showing for the 2014 Kips Bay Show House! This…
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Hey, you Houzz crashers and Pinterest pinners, heads up here. Before you lust after another kitchen image while preparing for your upcoming kitchen renovation, here’s a smart consumer countertop primer so you’ll select the right countertop and never again stare blankly at stone samples thinking, “What the #$*&@?” Step one. Think back to that science…
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NO matter where you live, no matter WHO you are, finding the right interior designer is mission critical. An Ideal Designer can save you from the costly ashes of a “textbook bad” design experience or result. But here’s the rub: There are fewer interior designers out there than there used to be. The economic rattle…
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You know, recently, I got a lot of fun comments back after a post I did in which I joked that Design is a lot like sex. People had fun with that – but I’ve got to tell you, the more I thought about it afterwards, the more true it really seemed to be to…
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Why ask silly questions? Of course (eventually) home will follow: Fashion Trends and Home Design Trends are the equivalent of the Homecoming King & Queen. They go hand in hand to the prom; 2 peas in a pod. Here’s a quick look at the just-spotted emerging color trend from NY’s Fashion Week. Keep an eye…
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